Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . ril 3d. Got under way yesterdayabout three in the afternoon. The snow was in first-rate condition after the southeast wind, which continuedblowing till late in the day. The ice was tolerablypassable, and everything looked more promising; theweather was fine, and we made good progress. Butafter several level tracts with old humpy ice came somevery uneven ones, intersected by lanes and pressure-ridges as usual. Matters did not grow any be
Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . ril 3d. Got under way yesterdayabout three in the afternoon. The snow was in first-rate condition after the southeast wind, which continuedblowing till late in the day. The ice was tolerablypassable, and everything looked more promising; theweather was fine, and we made good progress. Butafter several level tracts with old humpy ice came somevery uneven ones, intersected by lanes and pressure-ridges as usual. Matters did not grow any betteras time went on, and at midnight or soon after wewere stopped by some bad ice and a newly frozen lanewhich would not bear. As we should have had tomake a long detour, we encamped, and Russen waskilled (this was the second dog to go). The meat wasdivided into 26 portions, but 8 dogs refused it, andhad to be given pemmican. The ice ahead does notlook inviting:. These ridges are enough to make onedespair, and there seems to be no prospect of thingsbettering. I turned out at midclav and took a meridianobservation, which makes us in 85 59 N. It is aston-. NOTHING BUT ICE, ICE TO THE HORIZON. APRIL 7, 1895 A HARD STRUGGLE 163 ishing that we have not got farther; we seem to toil allwe can, but without much progress. Beginning to doubtseriously of the advisability of continuing northwardmuch longer. It is three times as far to Franz JosefLand as the distance we have now come. How may theice be in that direction ? We can hardly count on itsbeing better than here, or our progress quicker. Then,too, the shape and extent of Franz Josef Land arc un-known, and may cause us considerable delay, and per-haps we shall not be able to find any game just at have long seen that it is impossible to reach the Poleitself or its immediate vicinity over such ice as this andwith these dogs. If only we had more of them ! Whatwould I not give now to have the Olenek dogs ? Wemust turn, sooner or l
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